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...Now, Channel 4’s new drama, Truelove, ensures that this difficult but necessary debate continues into 2024....
...In early September, I spoke with Jeff Pope, the screenwriter of 2005’s Pierrepoint, a well-crafted biopic starring a winningly morose Timothy Spall in the title role....
...After the sonic complexity of 2013’s Jumbie in the Jukebox, their 2017 follow-up Where the Galleon Sank was relatively straightforward, a reflection of their live sound....
...Gain: Sergio Leone’s po-mo portentousness lending the story a witty grandiosity and gallows irony....
...Look past the gallows and the period setting and BBC2’s new sitcom is essentially about an unfulfilling professional life, with all the tedium, disenchantment, stifled ambition and petty competitiveness...
...The disagreement is at the heart of cabinet disarray over Brexit, and it was on display this morning in an interview Mr Fox gave to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
...More recently, Arnott has immersed readers in the violence of 1970s art-school terrorism (in 2006’s Johnny Come Home) and the milieu of drug-crazed occultist Aleister Crowley (in 2009’s The Devil’s Paintbrush...
...Glasses clinked and the crowd roared with laughter at Mr Azoff’s gallows humour, perhaps reflecting that they had long ago accepted the ravaged state of their industry....
...Lots of bureaucracy and gallows humour. Lots of waiting around. Michael Caine played the protagonist in glasses and shambling overcoats....
...By contrast, the FTSE 100 is off 4 per cent and the S&P 500, 8 per cent....
...Then it was the hard left, which surged into the party to support Jeremy Corbyn ’s leadership bid, that switched on the white heat of hostility....
...How can the tale’s standard ending, with Macheath escaping the gallows to rollick another day, work in this more sombre landscape?...
...“Standing on the gallows with my head in the noose,” he rasped: “Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose.” But unlike 1966, nothing had really changed....
...The irony of a rush into US Treasuries following the downgrade to the sovereign credit rating by Standard & Poor’s was not lost, and gallows humour predominated once the trading day was over....
...So why, I ask, since history has always meant so much to you, didn’t you show up for your “S level” in the subject?...
...updated production brought out the pathos of the tale of ancient Rome, and the cast, headed by the compelling mezzo soprano Tamara Mumford, had not a weak link, which made for gripping accounts of Act 2’s...
...- Gallows humour. - How punching Dick Fuld will solve the credit crisis. - Stock market crash in photos. - So do you feel like quitting yet?...
...After the S&P 500’s worst year since the 1930’s, the new year hope among investors is for some light at the end of the tunnel....
...As investors and analysts struggle to keep up with the latest twists and turns of the credit crisis, the plight of the world’s biggest banks has generated a rich vein of gallows humour....
...But only Ackermann, just back from a thinkfest in Mumbai about the future of cities, managed some gallows humour in the otherwise worthy surroundings....
...(I liked the typewriter expert called in by the Stasi, a nervously pedantic swot quite literally obsessed with his “p”s and “q”s.) Unlike a great film, it never leaps out and bites our throats....
...Then I went down to the basement and saw the cramped, filthy cells, the instruments of torture and the gallows....
...But among the bankers and analysts whose jobs were on the line, gallows humour ruled....
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